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Morse code in Chinese?

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The Question Marks in Spanish

There's a tradition of this in the siberian world. There was a guie called ramond ruled in the middle ages, who was naturally a cataland. And he invented a whole rationalized language and writing system. It didn't really catch on. But that's the kind of tradition that's involved, of trying to tinker with language to make it more coherent and rational. So they seem to havei also for exclamations as well as questions. Well, it would be too confusing as well, wouldn't iteaus? So it'si's. It's a form of parenthesis. They've turned it into parenthesiswi, surrounding a clause

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